Author Archives: Chris

All the time that you have what we have. / All the time that you have.

This short work is part game piece, part phys­ical per­form­ance, part sound. At the heart of it lies the ques­tion: what hap­pens when we stop breathing? The ex­haus­tion of a phys­ical limit  —  the breath, the bow  —  is de­ployed as a mech­anism con­trolling what we hear and how long we hear it for. The ori­ginal text is in French, […]

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The Incredulity of St Thomas at Harvard

The Incredulity of St Thomas’ for bass cla­ri­net­tist, cel­list and per­cus­sionist will be premiered by Talea Ensemble at Harvard University.

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Out and about

A few brief notes upon ar­riving in New York for the first time.

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Sky Studies in Paris

This Thursday, co­in­ciding with the Fête de la Musique and the summer sol­stice, Trami Nguyen is giving a piano re­cital at Paris’s Cité des Arts (Métro Pont Marie), which will in­clude the second and third of my Sky Studies from 2009 along­side music by Adam Maor, Vittorio Montalti and Alex Mincek. There will also be […]

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The Incredulity of St Thomas

But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other dis­ciples there­fore said unto him, We have seen the Lord. But he said unto them, Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and […]

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  • Microbiography

    Chris Swithinbank is a British-Dutch com­poser who works with both acoustic in­stru­ments and elec­tronic sounds. He is cur­rently a stu­dent at Harvard University with Chaya Czernowin.
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